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Arizona deer hunt 1017

12B. What each bonus point level actually did in Arizona's fall draw — how many applications sat at that level, and how many of them drew a tag. Every figure comes from an Arizona Game and Fish report linked at the foot of this page.

What the 2026 draw did

Arizona authorized 15 hunt permit-tags on hunt 1017 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 690 applications named it, and 15 drew it through the first two passes. The hunt filled.

Arizona grants no guarantee for holding points. Before each pass the department generates one random number for your application plus one more for every bonus point on it, and uses the lowest. Only the bonus pass — 20 per cent of the permits above, and closed to anyone holding no points — goes out in point order. So the table below is a record of what happened at each level, not a ladder you climb.

The highest bonus point level with an application on this hunt in 2026 was 28.

By bonus point level

Cycle
Residency
The draw rate is permits drawn divided by applications at that level — a share of the people there, not a share of a quota. Arizona publishes no permits-available figure per point level. "Bonus pass" is the subset of the drawn column issued in the 20 per cent first pass; it is already included, and adding the two together counts those permits twice. Applications are first and second choice only.
CyclePoints1st choice2nd choiceApplicationsDrawnof which bonus passDraw rate
2026 fall0435598000.00%
2026 fall1435194000.00%
2026 fall2514697000.00%
2026 fall3445599202.02%
2026 fall4362864203.13%
2026 fall5293160000.00%
2026 fall693140307.50%
2026 fall7131831000.00%
2026 fall8523284014.29%
2026 fall951116000.00%
2026 fall10121325104.00%
2026 fall113912000.00%
2026 fall12235000.00%
2026 fall130553360.00%
2026 fall14123000.00%
2026 fall15145000.00%
2026 fall16123000.00%
2026 fall17101000.00%
2026 fall18101000.00%
2026 fall20101000.00%
2026 fall21101000.00%
2026 fall28011000.00%
2025 fall0599308907000.00%
2025 fall1620379999100.10%
2025 fall28294021,231300.24%
2025 fall36743331,007500.50%
2025 fall4517285802100.12%
2025 fall53972086051001.65%
2025 fall6370231601100.17%
2025 fall7389245634600.95%
2025 fall8351251602300.50%
2025 fall9283181464300.65%
2025 fall102191353541002.82%
2025 fall11201124325100.31%
2025 fall12171100271401.48%
2025 fall1313685221301.36%
2025 fall1413082212301.42%
2025 fall158667153301.96%
2025 fall166956125100.80%
2025 fall17564197000.00%
2025 fall18543791000.00%
2025 fall19462773101.37%
2025 fall20523183889.64%
2025 fall21412364334.69%
2025 fall22202141000.00%
2025 fall23272249112.04%
2025 fall24301242102.38%
2025 fall25332154000.00%
2025 fall26192544000.00%
2025 fall2710616000.00%
2025 fall283143375.00%
2024 fall0503888000.00%
2024 fall1395695101.05%
2024 fall2475299101.01%
2024 fall3395392101.09%
2024 fall4282755305.45%
2024 fall5182644000.00%
2024 fall692130000.00%
2024 fall7181836102.78%
2024 fall881624208.33%
2024 fall95611000.00%
2024 fall10336000.00%
2024 fall116172028.57%
2024 fall12134000.00%
2024 fall13459000.00%
2024 fall14022000.00%
2024 fall153473342.86%
2024 fall16145000.00%
2024 fall171121050.00%
2024 fall23022000.00%

A dash in the rate column means nobody applied at that level in that pool, which is absent rather than nought — the draw answered nothing there.

The hunt, cycle by cycle

Season, unit and permit count as the regulations booklet for that cycle prints them. The nonresident figure is a cap, not a share — it is the most that may go to nonresidents, and it does not add to a resident number.
CycleSeasonOpen areasLegal wildlifeAuthorizedNR capIssued
2026 fallOct 23 - Nov 1, 202612BAny antlered deer15115
2025 fallNov 21 - Nov 30, 202512A West (excluding Grand Canyon National Park)Any antlered deer75775
2024 fallOct 25 - Nov 3, 202412BAny antlered deer15115

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 1017 across the cycles above, so comparing its rates across years is comparing hunts that may not cover the same country. The department publishes nothing that settles how much of the change is real, so this page shows each cycle's own description and claims nothing beyond it.

How to read these numbers

The applications column is not the whole field. Arizona draws in three passes and the bonus point report covers the first two — the bonus pass and the first-and-second-choice pass. Hunters who named this hunt as a third, fourth or fifth choice are drawn in a pass the department publishes no point-level breakdown for, so they are not counted above and no total here should be read as everyone who wanted the tag.

A bonus point level is a property of the application, not of a person.Two to four hunters may apply on one application, and Arizona averages their points and rounds to the nearest whole number. So a row at level 6 can hold a group whose members individually hold anything from 4 to 8.

Comparing a rate here with one from another state will mislead you.Utah's and Idaho's rates are permits against a published quota. Arizona's are permits against the applicants at one point level, because that is the only denominator the department gives.

Every source read for this page

  • 2026 F Bonus Point Report — 2026-F-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf, fetched 2026-09-04
  • 2025 Fall Bonus Point Report — 2025-Fall-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf, fetched 2026-09-04
  • 2024 Fall Draw Bonus Point Report — 2024-Fall-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf, fetched 2026-09-04
  • 2026-27-Arizona-Hunting-Regulations.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from
  • 2025-26-Arizona-Hunting-Regulations_250506.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from
  • 2024-25-Arizona-Hunting-Regulations_241209.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from

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